A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

The film deals with the a clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out out that he is a prisoner and nothing more. But that plants the seed and the Pole proposes and Olympics 40 to be held among the prisoners. They ingeniously make a flag and medals, set up a number of races; a croaching hop race is unwittingly organized by a German prison guard who uses it as a torture. The German lieutenant knows that something is going on but cannot find out. Finally the Germans realize the idea and the Polish chief is sent to concentration camp but the others disobey the orders.

本片通过四个主要角色每天都必须面对的困境探索了角色的内心世界。皮奥托和拉法尔情同手足，而拉法尔与皮奥托的妻子玛格达有一段旧情，也是皮奥托和玛格达女儿的生身父亲，皮奥托却一直蒙在鼓里。为了养家糊口，皮奥托加入波兰陆军，却在阿富汗不幸阵亡。而他的死也为活着的人带来了噩梦和尘封的秘密。他们必须面对这个残酷的现实，面对这个复杂的世界 本片在2014年戛纳电影市场展映，其悲情的爱情故事，至死方休的友谊和背叛得到了众多好评。另外，波兰最为著名的摄影师和作曲家的加入也让本片的质量得以保证，使得影片的视觉效果和音乐相当不凡。